World Polio Day took place in October 2017, To mark this occasion Runcorn Rotary involved Canal Boat Project Lords Taverners Youth Centre plus local residents in our project.

.For over 30 years, Rotary and its members have been committed to fighting to eradicate polio across the world. The amount of polio-endemic countries has dropped from 125 to just two, with over 2.5 billion children receiving vaccinations thanks to the help of Rotary. With eradication now closer than ever, Rotary International in Great Britain and Irelands latest campaign, Purple4Polio, is designed to unite communities to engage in activities as part of the final push to eradicate polio for good. Young people were invited along on two Saturdays to the Town Park near the Miniature Railway and Norton Priory Gardens to join with Rotarians and Friends of Rotary to plant 5,000 Crocus corms on each site. This year so far there have only been 16 reported cases of polio compared with 1,000s of cases per day about 30 years ago

Ken Tonge PHF also talked about his experiences giving polio drops in New Delhi to the children. It was a great morning and our helpers really enjoyed the experience and learning all about the work that the Rotary Club has been doing to help eradicate Polio across the world, including the first hand experiences that one member shared about his recent visit to India. Last year we planted 5,000 crocus corms at the Town Hall with local pupils.

Accesibility, Cookies etc

Every effort has been made to ensure that the original template pages for this site are W3C compatible.

However, as the content of pages is supplied by the district or club, such content may not be compatible.

Cookies:

We do not use cookies on this site to identify individuals.

We use Google Analytics to make sure our statistics are reliable.

Google Analytics stores information about what pages you visit, how long you are on the site, how you got here and what you click on. We do not collect or store your personal information (e.g. your name or address) so this information cannot be used to identify who you are.

We have some pages that link to external tools such as Google Maps and YouTube. These tools sit on Google’s web servers and you can find more information on Google's Privacy Policy here.

Some pages may have cookies used to integrate with Social Media sites, so that, for example, if you are logged into Facebook, you can 'like' pages.

We do not collect personal data in the public area of the site - if you complete a contact form, for example, your email address is not stored in a database for re-use, nor is any information passed to third parties.